Newhaven Freighters - 3

The East Sussex Port of Newhaven in the early 1970s and some of the ships that called there. The MV "HARDWICKE GRANGE" towers over a private yacht on its way into the marina.

 

Name: HARDWICKE GRANGE

Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship

Launched: 21/10/1960

Completed: 03/1961

Builder: Hawthorn Leslie (Ship Builders) Ltd

Yard: Hebburn

Yard Number: 737

Dimensions: 10338dwt, 10580grt, 5702nrt, 489.0 x 65.8 x 29.0ft

Engines: 2 x steam turbines, 8350shp

Engines by: Hawthorn, Leslie (Engineering) Ltd, Newcastle

Propulsion: 1 x Screw

Construction: Steel

Reg Number: 302613

History:

03/1961 Houlder Line Ltd (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd), London

1975 Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, London

1977 Montezillion Navigation Corporation, Monrovia; renamed JACQUES

27/03/1979 Broken up

 

Comments: 27/03/1979: Arrived at Kaohsiung for breaking up by Shyeh Sheng Huat Steel & Iron

 

Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame SLR.

Film: Agfacolour.

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